Bill of Rights Scenerios Quiz

You graduated from high school and started a pizza restaurant with some friends. You calculated you would break even for three years, build a customer base, then start making money. On the day you opened for business, a new law passed raising the minimum wage from $8 to $15, and you couldn’t afford to pay your employees. You went out of business after six months, wrote a letter of protest to the newspaper, and they published it. Both you and the editor were fined $500 by the Secretary of Commerce for criticizing the new minimum wage law in print.

• First Amendment

• Second Amendment

• Fourth Amendment

• Fifth Amendment

You always liked and respected the military. Then some soldiers appeared at your door and claimed they had orders to move into your house for two weeks. You didn’t know them. They were nice about it, but you knew something was wrong. You suspected they would raid your refrigerator and throw their laundry all over the floor. 

• First Amendment

• Second Amendment

• Third Amendment

• Fourth Amendment

You are pulled over for speeding while going on vacation to the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. The state trooper tells you to open your trunk and inspect it. He finds a briefcase with $300 inside and takes it, but lets you go without a ticket.

• First Amendment

• Second Amendment

• Fourth Amendment

• Fifth Amendment

A police officer comes to your door and tells you to turn in any firearms that you may own.

• First Amendment

• Second Amendment

• Fourth Amendment

• Fifth Amendment

Your neighbor got arrested for possessing a small bag of marijuana. The police come to your door to demand you give them your cell phone so they can check who called you, who you called, and when. They did not have a warrant from a judge, but they claimed they had the right to confiscate your property because they were investigating a criminal case.

• First Amendment

• Second Amendment

• Fourth Amendment

• Fifth Amendment

It doesn’t specially say in the Constitution that we “have a right not to be harassed by telemarketers who threaten us over the phone if we don’t buy their products,” but its absence in print doesn’t mean that right doesn't exist and that we would necessarily lose in a court case.

• Fifth Admendment

• Seventh Admendment

• Ninth Admendment

• Tenth Admendment

You were looking at merchandise on the shelves at Walmart and bumped into another customer with your cart. They sue you for medical injuries in the amount of $10,000 which you think is way too much. They said you caused “soft tissue damage” and “mental trauma.” You get a summons to come to a courthouse. You go to a room where they offer you this plea bargain: “If you pay $1,000, we will drop the lawsuit here and now.” You refuse and demand to go to court to be heard by the judge and or jury. They say “You have to settle the matter right here in this office.”

• Fifth Admendment

• Sixth Admendment

• Seventh Admendment

• Eighth Admendment

You loaned your lawnmower to a neighbor. While pulling the cord it snapped and struck them in the face, causing a laceration. They sued you for visible trauma, and you demanded it go before a jury, which it did. But the jury awarded the neighbor “10,000” of your money.

• Fifth Admendment

• Sixth Admendment

• Seventh Admendment

• Eighth Admendment

You get arrested because a store was vandalized. The police interrogate you and you say nothing in response to their questions. They say “Answer the question! You HAVE to answer.”

• Fifth Admendment

• Sixth Admendment

• Seventh Admendment

• Eighth Admendment

There is nothing in the Constitution about education or marriage and family issues. Each state decides how to regulate those kinds of things for itself, which is why some laws in the United States are different depending on which state you’re in.

• Tenth Admendment

• Eighth Admendment

• Sixth Admendment

• Fourth Admendment